1982 Guatemalan general election

General elections were held in Guatemala on 7 March 1982.^[1] Ángel Aníbal Guevara, hand-picked successor of previous president Romeo Lucas García, was declared the winner of the presidential election and was scheduled to take office on 1 July. However, the elections were widely denounced as fraudulent by elements on both sides of the political spectrum and an army-led coup d'état on 23 March instead installed the three-man junta of General Efraín Ríos Montt, General , and Colonel .

Voter turnout was 45.83% in the presidential election.

Results[]

President[]

Ángel Aníbal Guevara was the candidate of the Popular Democratic Front, an alliance of the Institutional Democratic Party, the Revolutionary Party and the . Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre was the candidate of the National Opposition Union, an alliance of Guatemalan Christian Democracy and the National Renewal Party.


Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Ángel Aníbal Guevara	Popular Democratic Front	379,051	38.86
	Mario Sandoval Alarcón	National Liberation Movement	275,487	28.24
	Alejandro Maldonado Aguirre	National Opposition Union	221,810	22.74
			99,047	10.15
Total			975,395	100.00

Valid votes			975,395	90.37
Invalid/blank votes			103,997	9.63
Total votes			1,079,392	100.00
Registered voters/turnout			2,355,064	45.83
Source: Nohlen

Congress[]

Of the nine seats won by the National Opposition Union, seven were taken by Guatemalan Christian Democracy and two by the National Renewal Party.


Party		Seats	+/–
	Popular Democratic Front	33	+2
	National Liberation Movement	21	+1
	National Opposition Union	9	+2
		3	New
Total		66	+5

Source: Nohlen

References[]

^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p323 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6

Bibliography[]

Villagrán Kramer, Francisco. Biografía política de Guatemala: años de guerra y años de paz. FLACSO-Guatemala, 2004.
Political handbook of the world 1982. New York, 1983.

[N1-1] Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I, p323 ISBN 978-0-19-928357-6

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